tirsdag 6. oktober 2015

China is more more repressive than ever since the days of Mao

Something remarkable is happening in China, or has happened. Slowly but methodically, the system of government is being transformed. In his first three years, Xi Jinping has built a new regime, radically harder than the one created by Deng Xiaoping and that he inherited. The new shape of things became conspicuously visible through a series of mishaps around the middle of the year, writes professor Stein Ringen. Read more